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The Prospector team has a new proof-of-concept that puts together the pieces of analyzing, sharing, and controlling data from Firefox. Site Suggest makes a secure and privacy-protected request with an ODP category to put a site suggestion in the corner of the new tab page. Continue reading

The Prospector team explores ideas about using locally analyzed Firefox data to improve browsing experience such as navigation aids with highlighted interests and Firefox-facilitated sharing of summarized data to websites. Continue reading

We love using Panorama to organize our tabs, but sometimes, we add and remove tabs and move around so quickly that before we know it we already have too many tabs open to want to fire up Panorama and reorganize … Continue reading

Since its original release and in multiple iterations, we’re quickly trying to make RecallMonkey a useful tool for helping you recall things you’ve seen before. In the last week, we’ve extended RecallMonkey with the following new features. UI Tweaks Though … Continue reading

In the week since we initially released Predictive Newtab, we’ve learnt a lot from your feedback. The first version worked by gathering contextual data about what you were browsing as keywords, and then searching for those in your history (using … Continue reading

Earlier this week, we pushed a first version of RecallMonkey. The goal of the project is to make it easier for you to find something you’ve visited in the past. My earlier post outlines some of the things we did … Continue reading

We make a lot of web searches with the intention of finding something we’ve seen before. If you’re trying to recall a page, chances are your browser has seen it before, so it should be able to rediscover it quickly. … Continue reading

In most major browsers, when you open a new tab, you encounter a “speed dial” – a list of web sites you frequently visit. We’ve written a new Prospector experiment, Predictive Newtab, to explore the idea of supplementing the fixed … Continue reading

Please download the latest Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (1:37) downloads: webm (14mb) and ogv (10mb) Transcript: I just installed Firefox 4 on a new machine. Normally I would use Sync to get all my history, … Continue reading